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The transition between a regime in which thermodynamic relations apply only to ensembles of small systems coupled to a large environment and a regime in which they can be used to characterize individual macroscopic systems is analyzed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alberto Suárez , Robert Silbey , Irwin Oppenheim

Many enhanced sampling techniques rely on the identification of a number of collective variables that describe all the slow modes of the system. By constructing a bias potential in this reduced space one is then able to sample efficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

The Jarzynski equality is one of the most influential results in the field of non equilibrium statistical mechanics. This celebrated equality allows to calculate equilibrium free energy differences from work distributions of nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Shahaf Asban , Saar Rahav

This work considers the problem of calculating an interval-valued state estimate for a nonlinear system subject to bounded inputs and measurement errors. Such state estimators are often called interval observers. Interval observers can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Stuart M. Harwood , Paul I. Barton

In this paper we study theoretically the process of electron capture between one-optical-electron atoms (e.g. hydrogenlike or alkali atoms) and ions at low-to-medium impact velocities ($v/v_e \approx 1$) working on a modification of an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Sattin

A powerful and well-established tool for free-energy estimation is Bennett's acceptance ratio method. Central properties of this estimator, which employs samples of work values of a forward and its time reversed process, are known: for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-16 Aljoscha Maria Hahn , Holger Then

A variety of algorithms have been proposed to address the power system state estimation problem in the presence of uncertainties in the data. However, less emphasis has been given to handling perturbations in the model. In the context of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Ayan Das , Anushka Sharma , Anamitra Pal

Preparing low energy states is a central challenge in quantum computing and quantum complexity theory. Several known approaches to prepare low energy states often get stuck in suboptimal states, such as high energy eigenstates (or low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Anshu

Energy-filtered quantum states are promising candidates for efficiently simulating thermal states. We explore a protocol designed to transition a product state into an eigenstate located in the middle of the spectrum; this is achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Gianluca Morettini , Luca Capizzi , Maurizio Fagotti , Leonardo Mazza

We derive a state dependent error-disturbance trade-off based on a statistical distance in the sequential measurements of a pair of noncommutative observables and experimentally verify the relation with a photonic qubit system. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ya-Li Mao , Zhi-Hao Ma , Rui-Bo Jin , Qi-Chao Sun , Shao-Ming Fei , Qiang Zhang , Jingyun Fan , Jian-Wei Pan

Estimation of mutual information between (multidimensional) real-valued variables is used in analysis of complex systems, biological systems, and recently also quantum systems. This estimation is a hard problem, and universally good…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-14 Caroline M. Holmes , Ilya Nemenman

In this short communication, I give a very simple derivation of the Jarzynski equality, which allows to compute the free energy difference of a body, which is driven between two equilibrium states $A$ and $B$ by an external (time-dependent)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Frédéric Douarche

The Jarzynski equality allows the calculation of free-energy differences using values of work measured from nonequilibrium trajectories. The number of trajectories required to accurately estimate free-energy differences in this way grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Stephen Whitelam

Thermodynamic length is a metric distance between equilibrium thermodynamic states. Among other interesting properties, this metric asymptotically bounds the dissipation induced by a finite time transformation of a thermodynamic system. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Gavin E. Crooks

We give an approach for characterizing interference by lower bounding the number of units whose outcome depends on selected groups of treated individuals, such as depending on the treatment of others, or others who are at least a certain…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 David Choi

This report presents the application of polynomial regression for estimating free energy differences using thermodynamic integration. We employ linear regression to construct a polynomial that optimally fits the thermodynamic integration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Conrad Shyu , F. Marty Ytreberg

This paper considers the problem of computing Bayesian estimates of both states and model parameters for nonlinear state-space models. Generally, this problem does not have a tractable solution and approximations must be utilised. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-15 Jarrad Courts , Johannes Hendriks , Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön , Brett Ninness

We consider the problem of estimating a random state vector when there is information about the maximum distances between its subvectors. The estimation problem is posed in a Bayesian framework in which the minimum mean square error (MMSE)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Dave Zachariah , Isaac Skog , Magnus Jansson , Peter Händel

Accurately inferring the state of a quantum device from the results of measurements is a crucial task in building quantum information processing hardware. The predominant state estimation procedure, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Robin Blume-Kohout

Estimating energy gaps, i.e. the energy difference between two different states, in quantum systems is crucial for understanding their properties. Conventionally, spectral gap estimation relies on independently computing the ground-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Davide Cugini , Francesco Ghisoni , Angela Rosy Morgillo , Francesco Scala